Coulson Macleod is exhib­it­ing at Top Drawer (stand C42) — the trade show at London’s Olympia, 11-13^th Septem­ber 2011.

This is our very first trade show. And there­fore hugely excit­ing (and pretty nerve-racking). But now the event is going to be even bet­ter for us, because we’ve been approved for both of Top Drawer’s spe­cial trails. Woohoo!

Renowned TV presenter and envir­on­mental cham­pion Oliver Heath (and author of design books that hap­pen to line our book­shelves) has lent his sup­port to Top Drawer’s accred­ited Eco-Trail.

Oliver’s stamp iden­ti­fies products that are:

* Pro­duced eth­ic­ally
* Under fair trade schemes
* Ideally made of sus­tain­able mater­i­als
* Bio­de­grad­able or reusable in some way

Our typo­graphic art­work has been selec­ted and will be clearly marked with the ‘Eco Trail cer­ti­fied by Oliver Heath’ sticker.
Oliver said, “As a designer it is essen­tial that I’m pick­ing up on key trends and find­ing ways to express these in the designs that I cre­ate; keep­ing them feel­ing fresh, con­tem­por­ary and excit­ing. Often these trends encour­age con­sumer­ism for its own sake. How­ever what we are see­ing now is a lar­ger cul­tural shift brought on by the impact of global reces­sion; from a short-term way of think­ing about our lives, and what we buy, to a more con­sidered long-term approach. The good news is that many of these changes encour­age a more sus­tain­able way of thinking; from sav­ing energy and resources to buy­ing good qual­ity, well-made products or just think­ing about the life­cycle of the pieces that we buy.”

And our typo­graphic art­work has also been selec­ted to be on the Product GB trail…

This is an ini­ti­at­ive that cham­pi­ons the national eco­nomy and locally-made products. With the effects of the down­turn still pre­val­ent in some areas of trade in the UK, buy­ing Brit­ish ensures our local eco­nomy is given the best pos­sible chance to flourish.

Product GB gives exhib­it­ors a chance to show­case their products that are made using mater­i­als sourced from the UK, and are designed and pro­duced locally.

Vis­it­ors to the show who fol­low the Product GB trail will off­set car­bon emis­sions incurred from goods trans­port­a­tion from over­seas. Sup­port for this ini­ti­at­ive also encour­ages fair-trade prac­tices, as the Product GB sticker denotes a trace­able source of man­u­fac­ture.
Demon­strate your sup­port for the national eco­nomy and buy Brit­ish at Top Drawer this Septem­ber. Keep an eye out for the Product GB logo as you make your way around the show.

Roll on Sunday. We are so ready.

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Couple of pieces of rather nice press Coulson Macleod has recently received for our much loved typo­graphic art…

Coun­try Homes & Interi­ors (Octo­ber 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’ hand­made print. The pan­elled back­board is made from reclaimed wood, which is then hand-painted and over-printed with dis­tressed image and typography.

Hitched (Autumn 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘I Love You’ hand­made print with a solid oak frame and ‘Solid Like A Rock’ print on solid limestone.

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Three new typo­graphic art prints. Intro­du­cing ‘The Block Col­lec­tion’. All very Coulson Macleod…

• hand­made
• reclaimed
• typo­graphy

For this art col­lec­tion we’ve hand-wrapped a block (35cm x 35cm) in nat­ural calico, and over­prin­ted and moun­ted it in a hand­made frame made from reclaimed wood. The inside of the frame is hand-painted in dif­fer­ent colours.

Please ‘like’ the Coulson Macleod Face­book page to keep up-to-date with all our spe­cial offers, new col­lec­tions, and giveaways.

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Intro­du­cing our latest typo­graphic art col­lec­tion — Catchphrases…

Do you know who said these three fam­ous TV catch­phrases? Tell us in the com­ments box.

Our latest typo­graphic art col­lec­tion fea­tures a nat­ural hes­sian, hand-wrapped, block (35cm x 35cm), over­prin­ted with typo­graphy and moun­ted in a hand­made frame made from reclaimed wood. The inside of the frame is hand-painted white.

As is the way with Coulson Macleod, we retain any defects in the wood to add charm and char­ac­ter to the print, which can include (and often does) knot holes, nail holes, warps, and water marks. So not only do they look great, each typo­graphic art­work is totally unique.

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Nat­ural reclaimed mater­i­als. Check. Typo­graphy. Check. Hand­made. Check. Vin­tage feel. Check. Oh, so very Coulson Macleod.

Intro­du­cing Coulson Macleod’s Curio Col­lec­tion, inspired by old phar­ma­ceut­ical adverts.

For this new vin­tage art col­lec­tion, we’ve used hes­sian, a coarse woven fab­ric made from the veget­able fibre, jute. We’ve wrapped the hes­sian around a block meas­ur­ing 35cm x 35cm just so you know and prin­ted the art­work onto the fab­ric. Then we’ve moun­ted this hes­sian print onto a hand­made frame made from gor­geous reclaimed wood (Vic­torian roof tim­bers to be exact). The inside of the frame is hand-painted white.

This art­work has an unlim­ited print quantity.

We’ve attached a hanging mech­an­ism to the rear of the frame so it’s ready for you to hang on your wall.

And just in case you were think­ing that the wood looked a bit, well, vin­tage. Yep! That’s the way we like it. We pur­pose­fully retain any defects in the tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece. These can include knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks, so each art­work is totally unique.

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Father’s Day. Is it just us, or are Dads the hard­est people to buy for?

Well, if you’re strug­gling to think of a gift, how about Coulson Macleod’s ‘I Am The Daddy’?

Coulson Macleod’s ‘I Am The Daddy’ is from the ‘Gift Col­lec­tion’. A solid square of salvaged reclaimed wood, hand-painted white, and then over-printed with dis­tressed typography.

‘I Am The Daddy’ is packed in a nat­ural jute hes­sian mater­ial and presen­ted in a Coulson Macleod–branded gift box made from recycled cardboard.

The per­fect gift for your Dad this Father’s Day.

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Our very pop­u­lar ‘Winter Tree’ col­lec­tion of typo­graphic prints has now just got a little bit bigger…

Our ‘Winter Tree’ prints fea­ture a hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood — Vic­torian roof tim­bers no less. Paint is applied by hand and then over-printed with dis­tressed image and typo­graphy. So very Coulson Macleod.

Our ‘Winter Tree’ col­lec­tion of six art­works has an unlim­ited print quantity.

We pride ourselves on the fact that the planks used to make the print vary in size and that we keep any defects in the tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter. We love knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks. And we know our cus­tom­ers do too.

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How does £50 off sound to you?

Well, if you join Coulson Macleod’s Face­book page you can access a spe­cial £50 Off Selec­ted Art­work page and pick a typo­graphic print, like one of these…

‘Defin­i­tion Of Romance’ — hand­made solid oak frame

‘I Only Live to Love You’ — hand­made solid oak frame

‘Wilde Blue’ — hand­made from reclaimed roof timbers

‘Wilde Grey’ — hand­made from reclaimed roof timbers

‘Wilde Red’ — hand­made from reclaimed roof timbers

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Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art is in the Christ­mas issue of Nor­we­gian magazine Elle Interior.

As you can see Elle Interior has fea­tured a print from our Winter Trees collection.

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Our hand­made Winter Tree prints are made from reclaimed wood (the tim­ber star­ted out life as Vic­torian roof tim­bers to be pre­cise). We then white­wash the wood and over-print with a dis­tressed image and dis­tressed typo­graphy. Well it wouldn’t be a Coulson Macleod without some dis­tressed typo­graphy would it?

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One of Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic prints was awar­ded first prize to the win­ner of Design Refuge’s Octo­ber Chal­lenge. Design Refuge, if you haven’t already come across it, is the largest meet­ing place online for design blog­gers worldwide.

The win­ner was Jac­quelyn Clark from blog lark & linen, who had to ask for help as she simply couldn’t decide which of these prints to choose…

Hand­made vintage-style, rough-sawn, solid oak frame sur­round­ing a white-washed oak panel prin­ted with dis­tressed typography

Dis­tressed typo­graphy prin­ted onto solid limestone

Hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood, paint is applied by hand and then over-printed with dis­tressed image and typography

She said, “So as you all know, I was voted the Design Refuge Octo­ber chal­lenge win­ner. Yay!! My prize includes a print from the very tal­en­ted Coulson Macleod and I need your help! Their work is pretty incred­ible; often made with reclaimed mater­i­als, each piece is unique and beau­ti­ful. I’ve nar­rowed it down to the above three and would love to know, which do you prefer? I just can’t decide. As an aside, yes­ter­day Coulson Macleod put together a really sweet fea­ture on their blog about lark + linen. It’s the first time I’ve been fea­tured since start­ing my blog last April and if you’d like to see it please take a look here. It truly made my day.”

In the end Jac­quelyn chose our ‘The Roar of Trees and Crack of Branches’ print, which was fea­tured in the Novem­ber issue of Elle Dec­or­a­tion magazine.

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